Wikipedia talk:Pocket consensus

Please comment here.--Paul McDonald (talk) 02:53, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

It might be helpful if, in this essay, you responded to Wikipedia:Silence and consensus. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 03:09, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

This seems like yet another tool for extreme minorities to bludgeon mainstream consensus with. So the editor that endlessly insists that diabetes mellitus must mention an extremely rare monogeneic form in the introduction of a very large article can now add WP:Pocket consensus to his long list of complaints. It's not good enough for all the editors that are aware of this issue to oppose his demands; now we have to have every single editor in the world oppose it. I'm not impressed. WhatamIdoing (talk) 03:14, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

If that's what you got out of the essay, either I need to re-write it or you need to re-read it. This is not saying that everybody needs to know everything about everything, but rather that if an editor is not familiar with a topic, Wikipedia might be better off leaving the topic to those who do have an understanding.--Paul McDonald (talk) 05:44, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

What I get about this is "if you aren't a member of the project you can't/shouldn't object". Silence doesn't always breed consent. Especially, on guidelines reguarding notability for example. -Djsasso (talk) 16:27, 14 October 2008 (UTC)